6 ordered to trial in San Jacinto corruption probe

The Associated Press

Six relatives of indicted city officials have been ordered to stand trial on perjury and other charges in a corruption probe in San Jacinto.

A Riverside County judge on Friday ordered the six defendants be tried on charges of conspiracy to make campaign contributions in a false name, making a campaign contribution as an intermediary and perjury.

Authorities contend that they illegally donated and were reimbursed for contributions to the failed 2006 state Assembly campaign of City Councilman James Ayres.

They then denied being reimbursed in front of a grand jury.

Nine other people - including Ayres and the city's former mayor and vice mayor - have already been indicted on charges of trying to skirt campaign contribution limits.